At the age of 28, I’m sure it’ll come as no surprise that I have had succession of boyfriends. Not too many, but started dating at the age of 17. My life of relationships started with ‘Fred” (that’s what we’ll call him for now!) He was a really nice guy, and in fact too nice for me. We dated for 2 years and then went our separate ways when we started university.

The second ‘Albert’ was also a really nice guy. You’d think I’d have learnt my lesson after the first guy, me a...